Apple's results for the first quarter of 2013: better than expected

Last night, Apple announced its
results of the past quarter and the least we can say is that they
were expected. Indeed, the Apple share price which had reached
records last yearbeen under a lot of pressure in recent times
weeks, on rumors of difficult sales in particular.

Let's kill the suspense right away, the analysts were wrong, the
results are in the endbetter than expected, even if a
slowdown in growth (reread carefully these three written words
voluntarily) is felt, Tim Cook agreed, while the benefits
are they in slight decline, remain comfortable!

But enough back office analyzes of two-penny marketplaces, onward
for what interests us most, here are some key figures shared
by Apple yesterday and an infographic to visualize all this in its
context : :

Overall, Apple positively surprised analysts who found
as being very pessimistic, with revenues established at 43.8 billion
dollars compared to 39.2 last year over the same period. The benefits
they are 9.5 billion compared to 11.6 billion last year.
As for sales, they are doing well on slot machines
iOS :

• 37.4 million iPhones were sold during the first quarter
  of the year, Apple sold 35.1 million in the first quarter of 2012

• 19.5 million iPads found buyers, that was 11.8 million per year
  last, impressive growth linked in particular to the arrival of the iPad
  mini

• The Mac computer line showed a slight decline from year to year.
  year, falling just below last year's 4 million

To put this into perspective, here is a nice infographic from
of the site
Splatf:

It will be noted that profits are down from one year to the next, this is the
first time in 10 years.

Tim Cook indicated in the press release that the company was working
on “amazing” new products (software and hardware) that they were waiting for
their launch later this year with much anticipation.

Quite a program! We will come back to this in an article on what was
shared during a press conference held after the announcement
official results.

Source: Apple Press Release

founder of the site. Computer engineer and Internet specialist where he has held various positions of responsibility, Laurent has been passionate about mobility since the arrival of "PDAs" in the 90s. Journalist for 4 years for the magazine Team Palmtops (Posse Presse) and author of several books on the iPad published by Pearson.